Breathtaking celestial photographs, most recently from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, capture a beauty beyond terrestrial ...

Allan Sandage lent her Edwin Hubble's glass plate images of galaxies to conduct ... She subsequently studied the dust in the Trifid Nebula (M20) using the then-new technology of CCD imaging. In 1976, ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda galaxy. Zoom in and explore.

The first images show breathtaking views of the Trifid Nebula and Lagoon Nebula, captured over a seven-hour period. These pictures reveal faint details that were previously invisible.

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way.

Hubble found a Cepheid in the Andromeda Nebula, using its period and brightness to calculate distance. This distance was far beyond our galaxy, proving Andromeda is a separate galaxy.

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest telescope in the world.

One of them is a composite of 678 exposures taken over just seven hours, capturing the Trifid Nebula and the Lagoon Nebula — both several thousand light-years from Earth — glowing in vivid ...

Discover the first images from the world's largest digital camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, marking a new era in astronomy.

The largest digital camera ever built released its first shots of the universe Monday — including colorful nebulas, stars and galaxies.